Broken Girl News

Things you might want to know, for Feb 15, 2023:

• Check out this teaser for The Mandalorian’s third season | Boing Boing — Cuteness is the way.
• Cars are rewiring our brains to ignore all the bad stuff about driving — Capacity invites use. That which we can, we do.
• 10 years ago, we were turning nuclear bombs into nuclear energy. We can do it again.
• I tried using AI. It scared me. — You’re scared of AI. I’m scared of what comes after AI. Because I’ll probably see it. The cycles are coming too fast now… the next big leap will happen quickly.
• You’re not going to believe what I’m about to tell you – The Oatmeal — A noble effort; it warns of its own futility, but offers itself all the same.
• Ivory for Mastodon gains post editing and more on iPhone and iPad as Mac development continues — Leaving Twitter is easy once you have a decent client.
• Halo dropped the ball on Cortana’s villainous turn — Hard to argue with this one… everything of narrative interest happened offscreen, and rendered the character’s turn meaningless. Infinite works despite the narrative, not because of it.
• A Novel Male Birth Control Could Be an ‘On-Off Switch for Sperm’ — More of this.
• Lana Del Rey’s New Song ‘A&W’ Is Definitely Not About Root Beer — Heh! I had no idea what it was about, but yeah… makes sense.
• Feist Details New Album ‘Multitudes,’ Releases Three Songs: Listen — 1, 2, 3, 4 … 35,728, 35,729, 35,730… it’s been a while since I thought about Feist.
• Ted Lasso Season 3 is returning March 15, and I still believe | Boing Boing — About time.
• Reverse City Builder ‘Terra Nil’ From Devolver Digital and Free Lives Gets New Gameplay Trailer, Releasing This Year – TouchArcade — I love this concept, and the sound design seems amazing… remains to be seen how it plays.